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pancito
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 		[8/13/42]Eight Days... Thirteen Lights... 42 hours...
Was EIGHT DAYS
The first email was:
Nighthawk wrote:
I just got this in my corporate email ( infoSPLATdlimedia.com ), which technically isn't registered anywhere but is publically visible on my website...

Quote:
From: 43616e2774476f5475SPLAT636f6d696e67736f6f6e.com
Subject: Eight days...

I have a little surprise waiting for you. Eight days doesn't seem too long, now, does it?

(P.S. Watch those cocktails!)


The "from" decodes to "Can'tGoTu@comingsoon.com", which I'm guessing isn't valid.

Followed by:
jelloarm wrote:
Hey, concerning the "Can'tgotu," I got one:

Quote:
from 43616e2774476f5475splat636f6d696e67736f6f6e.com
If you Can'tGoTu my little surprise, maybe you could help find out more about
it.

Oh, my domain (at weebly.com) should help.


Any ideas?

(Yaaaay, first trailhead e-mail!)


Angelus78 found: http://636f6d696e67736f6f6e.weebly.com/

jelloarm wrote:
ok, hopeless at vignere, but here it is for someone that can handle it:

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This is the text that is hidden underneath the countdown.
>>> Updating shared interfaces

Starting system

Setting up route

0011b20 02 1a 05 00 30 0d 06 09 2a 86 48 86 f7 0d 01 010011b50 92 bc 4f 30 2e fd 20 d3 89 d6 20 90 97 50 0f c9

ERR: Visual modules 95/100 (possible errors)

Cleaning up

00109f0 6e 76 24 55 4e 49 58 32 30 30 33 00 5f 73 65 740010a00 6c 6f 63 61 6c 65 00 5f 73 69 67 6e 61 6c 00 5f0010a10 73 6e 70 72 69 6e 74 66 24 4c 44 42 4c 31 32 380010a20 00 5f 73 73 63 61 6e 66 24 4c 44 42 4c 31 32 38

Started



And, Despoiler has it, for what it's worth...
Linkage

All of this from the Spam/Trailhead thread. Have at it.

ETA: http://13lights.org/ is also in play.
as is http://13lights.com/

The wiki is at http://xiii.wikibruce.com
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degravedi
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 		Whoa! Just realized I got one of these too.

As for the Weebly site, it's strange that each time you click on the page, the string at the top counts down.
Nevermind, it's just a static countdown timer that refereshes each time you click on the page.

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 		I will definitely be keeping an eye on this game.
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Nighthawk
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 		From the full text on that page:

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Starting system
Setting up route
0011b20 02 1a 05 00 30 0d 06 09 2a 86 48 86 f7 0d 01
010011b50 92 bc 4f 30 2e fd 20 d3 89 d6 20 90 97 50 0f c9
ERR: Visual modules 95/100 (possible errors)
Cleaning up
00109f0 6e 76 24 55 4e 49 58 32 30 30 33 00 5f 73 65
740010a00 6c 6f 63 61 6c 65 00 5f 73 69 67 6e 61 6c 00 5f
0010a10 73 6e 70 72 69 6e 74 66 24 4c 44 42 4c 31 32
380010a20 00 5f 73 73 63 61 6e 66 24 4c 44 42 4c 31 32 38


First two hex lines equate to garbage, but there are some ASCII characters in the rest:

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6e 76 24 55 4e 49 58 32 30 30 33 00 5f 73 65 = "nv$UNIX2003�_se"

6c 6f 63 61 6c 65 00 5f 73 69 67 6e 61 6c 00 5f = "locale�_signal�_"

73 6e 70 72 69 6e 74 66 24 4c 44 42 4c 31 32 = "snprintf$LDBL12"

00 5f 73 73 63 61 6e 66 24 4c 44 42 4c 31 32 38 = "�_sscanf$LDBL128"


*EDIT*
Technical explanation...

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First two lines are zero terminated "C strings", which imply they are pulled from an executable or otherwise compiled application or system.

"locale" and "signal" are C/C++ function calls from network libraries, I believe.

"snprintf" is a C/C++ command to format text for output or other use.

"sscanf" is a C/C++ command to read text in a particular format. The "_sscanf" definition is translated to a a "cdecl" function call, which implies this is still from a object file, or at least a file with object information.

The "$" tags could be object code definitions. I know OBJ files compiled on Windows use similar tags, but I don't know what the tags are in a Unix environment.

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degravedi
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 		Re: Technical explaination.
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So apparently LDBL128 has something to do with programing as well. I'm completely illiterate when it comes to programming though. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/comphelp/v7v91/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.vacpp7a.doc/compiler/ref/ruoptldl.htm


EDIT: Also, in the picture of the note, the only part of the subject not blacked out is "New Angeles", something to do with http://www.newangelesmonthly.com maybe?

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 		I did some quick searches at NewAngeles and didn't find anything, but only spent a couple minutes on it. The only thing I see that's a bit weird is the grayscale boxes at the top (see below). Each square gives a slightly different valus with my dropper tool, but that's probably jpeg artifact.
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pancito wrote:
I did some quick searches at NewAngeles and didn't find anything, but only spent a couple minutes on it. The only thing I see that's a bit weird is the grayscale boxes at the top (see below). Each square gives a slightly different valus with my dropper tool, but that's probably jpeg artifact.


It looked to me like writing / an image that was scrambled to keep it from being readable. You know, like on the cop shows where they pixilate the perps' faces.

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 		New image posted
LINK
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Use the graph and the letter chart you get:
enwikipediaorgwikisimulatedreality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulatedreality ? Nothing there?

ETA
maybe this one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality


Ah, ETA2
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Specifically here:
LINK


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pancito
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 		"Are you a person dreaming you are a computer, or a computer dreaming you are a person?" Or something. I'll go with Occam's Razor on this one. Still, when I look at the literature list, I like a lot of those books, and my main gripe with the Matrix has always been, "if it's that good a simulation there's no real difference, so your choice is steak or pap." Gimme the steak. Especially since there is no way to tell which is the simulation (unless you're Neo, and maybe not even then).

Oh yeah... GWT! (I think an acronym is in order at this point...)
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pancito wrote:
My main gripe with the Matrix has always been, "if it's that good a simulation there's no real difference, so your choice is steak or pap." Gimme the steak. Especially since there is no way to tell which is the simulation (unless you're Neo, and maybe not even then).


Watching those movies, I always thought the same thing.
"Like OMG! The machines are using us for batteries, BATTERIES! Those evil fiends! How dare they make a program we can live in that's just as if the world never went to crap..."

Sorry. Carry on. Laughing

Edit: Also, I scoured the wiki page's history hoping to find something that stands out, but nothing I can see.

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 		Anything reminding me of Keanu will get my interest. Thanks already to all for the trailhead, links and thoughts etc... Cool
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 		I'm intrigued especially because I've read most of the books listed on the Wikipedia page.
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 		Just an idea, but the wiki page itself may not be IG, it might be just to give a clue on what this is about...maybe this is related to a Virtual Reality game? (or just telling us it's an ARG)

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Peacemaker wrote:
Just an idea, but the wiki page itself may not be IG, it might be just to give a clue on what this is about...maybe this is related to a Virtual Reality game? (or just telling us it's an ARG)


Yes the Wiki page is definitely not in game. I'm pretty sure its just a clue that with in the reality of this ARG we are all in a simulated world or there's going to be a simulated world involved somehow that gets out of hand. Just speculation, but I'm pretty sure it's something along those lines...
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 		This is reminding me a lot about A Mind Forever Voyaging...

Also, the name "New Angeles" sounds like a setting in the future, so it might be a time shifted game, or one of those games in which we stop something in the future through action in the present.

Virtual reality... computer programming... Oh, I'm going to have a field days with these guys. Twisted Evil

*EDIT*
Regarding that new image. The numbers in the graph on the bottom right appear to be...

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X: 4324040433042123033320104432401344
Y: 4203231443421303231320241441442310


I'm trying to map those to the alphabet on the top right and I'm getting garbage. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
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